Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anonymous "aviation authority," who had been in Moscow to teach the Russians about air defenses as London had bitterly learned them, returned to London an amazed...
Jack Kelly seized the job with both hands. This week he opened Physical Training headquarters in Philadelphia, announced that he would appoint a woman to toughen U.S. women, would enlist prominent athletes (e.g., Jack Dempsey, Tom Harmon) "to help teach the men and women of America to be strong." He plans to start a toughening-for-defense school in every village, town and city; to organize hiking clubs, calisthenics clubs, softball and soccer clubs, swimming clubs, skating clubs; to open Government clinics to diagnose citizens' physical weaknesses...
Measured by the subjects and facts they teach-and by those they fail to teach-most U.S. public schools are far behind the times. So reported a group of curriculum experts, headed by Professor Herbert B. Bruner of Columbia University's Teachers College, who last week completed a five-year study called What Our Schools Are Teaching (Bureau of Publications, Teachers College...
Alabama's State Prison at Wetumpka opened a beauty parlor to improve morale, teach trades to women prisoners. Last week there was a riot among the 300 women (210 of them Negroes) when one was told she couldn't have her nails manicured. When the screaming and scratching ended, Warden J. Curtis Weldon Sr. gave five white women prisoners their choice of seven lashes apiece or loss of prison privileges for 60 days. They chose the flogging, which the warden administered himself. Alabama's Governor Dixon promptly fired the warden...
...dismissed and the Soviet Army organ, Red Star, declared: "War does not tolerate dilettantism. . . . The great Stalin urges us to face reality and not lock ourselves in shells of ossified dogma. . . . The discipline of the Red Army must be stronger, sterner, and more exacting." Marshal Timoshenko told his officers: "Teach your troops only what is necessary for war and only in the way it is done...